"I wasn't expecting too much to be honest," Logan Elliot told Miami television station WSVN. Elliot, from Georgia, was visiting South Florida for a baseball game.

It took the teens two two hours to pull the shark to the charter boat named, "Hooked Up."

"I don't think they really understood the magnitude of what had just happened," said the charter boat's captain, Capt. Taco. "They were kind of in shock and it was such a big fish. They didn't really understand how rare that is."

Shark experts said it's rare to see a great white shark in South Florida, much less catch one.

"It was a great experience," Elliot said. "(It's a) once in a lifetime kind of thing that when I go fishing again I won't be as excited the way I was today, that's for sure."

The great white was released.

Capt. Taco said it was the biggest fish he's ever caught in his 30 years of fishing.